Baker Island (Maine)

Baker Island is an island located in Maine marking the southwestern entrance to Frenchman Bay, about four miles (2.5 km) south of Mt. Desert Island. It is one of the five islands in the Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine.

The island is not inhabited year round. There are only three property owners on the island, two of which are private residences, with the balance of the island (well over 75% of the total land) belonging to the National Park Service.

Baker Island Light sits in the center of the island. The station began in 1828 on the order of John Quincy Adams to warn of the shoals around the Cranberry Isles and the sand bar running between Baker Island and Little Cranberry Island. The current tower was built in 1855 and automated in 1966. The lighthouse is a historic site listed in the National Register of Historic Places. ^[1]

References

↑ "Baker Island Light". Inventory of Historic Light Stations: Maine Lighthouses. National Park Service. 2002-04-15. Archived from the original on 12 November 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-03.

Islands of Maine

Cumberland	Bailey Bustins Chebeague Cliff Cousins Cow Cushing Dingley Eagle Frye Great Diamond Hog Hope House Jewell Mackworth Little Diamond Littlejohn Long Orr's Peaks Ragged Sebascodegan

Hancock	Bar Island Cranberry Isles Baker Bear Great Cranberry Little Cranberry Sutton Deer Isle Eagle Great Duck Great Spruce Head Little Deer Long Mount Desert Nautilus Spectacle Swan's Verona

Knox	Allen Criehaven Curtis Eastern Egg Rock Franklin Isle au Haut Lane's Matinicus Metinic North Haven Seal Two Bush Vinalhaven Whitehead

Lincoln	Burnt the Cuckolds Damariscove Hog Louds Manana Monhegan Squirrel Westport Witch

Piscataquis	Gero Sugar

Sagadahoc	Arrowsic Harbor Malaga Pond

Waldo	Islesboro Sears Warren

Washington	Birch Islands Cross Great Wass Machias Seal Moose North Rock Saint Croix

York	Badger's Boon Seavey's Isles of Shoals Appledore Smuttynose

Coordinates: 44°14′29.3″N 68°11′54.6″W / 44.241472°N 68.198500°W / 44.241472; -68.198500

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